Pro Weekly: The Many Ways to Run a Software Company

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images.

Fresh off Sridhar Ramaswamy’s appointment as CEO of Snowflake, we published an Org Chart for the cloud database software company this week, highlighting the 41 top executives. Snowflake is the latest software company added to our Org Charts catalog. We published ServiceNow and MongoDB earlier this year, and we’ve long had Org Charts for Salesforce and Adobe, among others.

I spent the week scanning these organizational structures, and one thing stood out. These companies do very similar things: They build software for companies and distribute it through cloud services. But they are structured very differently.